Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[fatboy18]

TODAY

[Bobberoo99]

fatboy18 said:

TODAY

U OK HUN?

[I Love Cake]

Arty photos of hotels on booking sites and their own website. I don’t want to see some ‘award nominated’ photography, just a good idea of what the hotel and rooms look like.

[Cotty]

matchmaker said:

People who use self service checkouts who don't know how to use self service checkouts.

Ill counter that with st self service checkouts that fail to scan items. I have tried to use a few and have never had a straight forward scan, pay, leave experience.

I got stuck using one, Apparently it was asking if I wanted cash back and was waiting for me to respond. Why the fk would a machine that does not accept or give out cash be asking if I want cash back.

[Frank7]

Cotty said:

Ill counter that with st self service checkouts that fail to scan items. I have tried to use a few and have never had a straight forward scan, pay, leave experience.

I got stuck using one, Apparently it was asking if I wanted cash back and was waiting for me to respond. Why the fk would a machine that does not accept or give out cash be asking if I want cash back.

Every day’s a school day, I rarely use self service checkouts, unless I have
only a couple of items, but I’ve never noticed ones that are card only.
Still, they must exist, as Cotty points out.

[anonymous-user]

Cotty said:

matchmaker said:

People who use self service checkouts who don't know how to use self service checkouts.

Ill counter that with st self service checkouts that fail to scan items. I have tried to use a few and have never had a straight forward scan, pay, leave experience.

I got stuck using one, Apparently it was asking if I wanted cash back and was waiting for me to respond. Why the fk would a machine that does not accept or give out cash be asking if I want cash back.

Add to that the fact that they only dish out change in the smallest denomination possible, yesterday I had 58p change all in 5p's and 1's

[RizzoTheRat]

Hangovers.
Had various things I wanted to do today, not made it out of bed yet.

[Langweilig]

rambo19 said:

thetapeworm said:

I'm sure this will have been here before but I haven't seen it so I'll take the risk of becoming an annoyance with reason.

You visit a garage that has a mini supermarket attached to it with the sole purpose of buying some milk (or another similar item) and then go to the counter for this exchange.

Me: "Just this please"

Them: "Any fuel?"

Me: "No, just this please"

It's "beyond reason" because I appreciate I could miss out my opening line, I could just accept that they are trained to ask this or that it's a habit, I don't and I get annoyed, every single time.

I always say;

me- 'no fuel'
Them- 'any fuel'
FFS!

The best of it is, they have electronic equipment which tells them what pump you've used and how much fuel you've bought. In spite of that, they still persist in asking that stupid question.

[The Mad Monk]

Langweilig said:

The best of it is, they have electronic equipment which tells them what pump you've used and how much fuel you've bought. In spite of that, they still persist in asking that stupid question.

Doing that job, there aren't many opportunities for intercourse with members of the public.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

This really is the thread that keeps on giving.

They do it to prevent accidental drive-offs. Customer fills up with fuel, comes in to pay, does some grocery shopping, forgets that on this occasion they filled up, pays for the groceries, leaves, and doesn't pay for the fuel. Police called, criminal proceedings started.

A simple reminder can reduce the incidence of this enormously.

Sorry to hear that this annoys you. Maybe you should do your grocery shopping in a proper supermarket rather than a petrol station.

[Frank7]

The Mad Monk said:

Doing that job, there aren't many opportunities for intercourse with members of the public.

Oh I say! Steady on old chap.
I’m sure if I’d had that job when I was in my twenties I could have persuaded a bored housewife to take a tour of the stock room, at least once per year.

[thetapeworm]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

This really is the thread that keeps on giving.

They do it to prevent accidental drive-offs. Customer fills up with fuel, comes in to pay, does some grocery shopping, forgets that on this occasion they filled up, pays for the groceries, leaves, and doesn't pay for the fuel. Police called, criminal proceedings started.

A simple reminder can reduce the incidence of this enormously.

Sorry to hear that this annoys you. Maybe you should do your grocery shopping in a proper supermarket rather than a petrol station.

You know this is the "beyond reason" thread right?

For the record the garage is 5 minutes walk from my house and a handy place to get emergency pork scratchings and milk, I do appreciate some might opt to do a bigger shop there though.

[kowalski655]

Frank7 said:

Every day’s a school day, I rarely use self service checkouts, unless I have
only a couple of items, but I’ve never noticed ones that are card only.
Still, they must exist, as Cotty points out.

The ones I've encountered usually have a sign stuck on saying "card only" so I presume they have run out of change(also annoying is how they dispense it mostly in coppers,saves them taking it to the bank I reckon)
Annoying for me are the self-scan-as-you-shop handsets that take 10 attempts to scan a single item!

[Morningside]

JFK Airport. The local time is 9 o'clock PM.
Who the hell reads the time like that?

[Zarco]

Frank7 said:

The Mad Monk said:

Doing that job, there aren't many opportunities for intercourse with members of the public.

Oh I say! Steady on old chap.
I’m sure if I’d had that job when I was in my twenties I could have persuaded a bored housewife to take a tour of the stock room, at least once per year.

[V8mate]

kowalski655 said:

Frank7 said:

Every day’s a school day, I rarely use self service checkouts, unless I have
only a couple of items, but I’ve never noticed ones that are card only.
Still, they must exist, as Cotty points out.

The ones I've encountered usually have a sign stuck on saying "card only" so I presume they have run out of change(also annoying is how they dispense it mostly in coppers,saves them taking it to the bank I reckon)
Annoying for me are the self-scan-as-you-shop handsets that take 10 attempts to scan a single item!

Waitrose self-scan are card-only.

In any case, cash is council.

[Cotty]

kowalski655 said:

Annoying for me are the self-scan-as-you-shop handsets that take 10 attempts to scan a single item!

I have only used the ones in Sainsbury's but they work very well, in fact better than the self scan tills. I gave up in the end and just get it delivered us use a manned till.

[V8mate]

Cotty said:

kowalski655 said:

Annoying for me are the self-scan-as-you-shop handsets that take 10 attempts to scan a single item!

I have only used the ones in Sainsbury's but they work very well, in fact better than the self scan tills. I gave up in the end and just get it delivered us use a manned till.

The new generation Tesco 'guns' are amazingly fast at identifying the barcode. Both Sainos and Waitrose guns work well enough though. They don't have the issues they had ten years ago.

I use my mobile phone as the self-scan gun in Waitrose though - the app and capability are very good.

[baptistsan]

Princess on board stickers.
Just why?
And why does it annoy me so fking much?

[nonsequitur]

Morningside said:

JFK Airport. The local time is 9 o'clock PM.
Who the hell reads the time like that?

I don't think our American cousins have grasped the 24 hour clock yet. Along with Metric measurements. Thank goodness they have 'decimal' currency. (But not quite, they still have the 25 cent coin).